Blotter: Wipeout: hot pot on a cool afternoon

Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 02:51 PM.

The Blotter is a look at some of the unusual things that happen on the crime beat in Bay County.

Officers on patrol spotted two people doing what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug deal.

Rather than confront a potential drug distributor, they pursued the man they believed received the drugs, who left the area on a bicycle at an “abnormally fast pace.”

The bicyclist appeared to clutching something between his right hand and the handlebars, so the police passed him and stopped their patrol car in front of him. An officer jumped out, with badge and gun on display, and said, “Police, come here.”

Of course, the bicyclist was still riding hard and apparently hadn’t expected a police car to stop directly in front of him. Here’s the officer described what happened in the report:

“The subject appeared to be very startled at the sight of law enforcement and lost control of his bicycle, crashing into me and the door of my vehicle before falling over onto the curb on the east side of the roadway.”

The officer immediately grabbed for the man’s right hand, but he wasn’t holding anything. The officers did find a bag of marijuana about two feet from where the bicyclist wiped out, and, after handcuffing the bicyclist, they touched the bag and found it slightly warm to the touch. The officers noted that a weather website listed the temperature at the time at 55 degrees.

The Blotter is a look at some of the unusual things that happen on the crime beat in Bay County.

Officers on patrol spotted two people doing what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug deal.

Rather than confront a potential drug distributor, they pursued the man they believed received the drugs, who left the area on a bicycle at an “abnormally fast pace.”

The bicyclist appeared to clutching something between his right hand and the handlebars, so the police passed him and stopped their patrol car in front of him. An officer jumped out, with badge and gun on display, and said, “Police, come here.”

Of course, the bicyclist was still riding hard and apparently hadn’t expected a police car to stop directly in front of him. Here’s the officer described what happened in the report:

“The subject appeared to be very startled at the sight of law enforcement and lost control of his bicycle, crashing into me and the door of my vehicle before falling over onto the curb on the east side of the roadway.”

The officer immediately grabbed for the man’s right hand, but he wasn’t holding anything. The officers did find a bag of marijuana about two feet from where the bicyclist wiped out, and, after handcuffing the bicyclist, they touched the bag and found it slightly warm to the touch. The officers noted that a weather website listed the temperature at the time at 55 degrees.

The officers left the pot on the ground. When they picked it up again 15 minutes later, the pot was cooler. If the amount of pot was small enough to conceal in a man’s fist that’s probably where it was.